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SCOTUS sentencing cases involve unusual advocates

By Douglas A. Berman

Writing in the Legal Times, Tony Mauro has this interesting piece headlined, "Supreme Court Justices Turn to Ex-Clerks for Unusual Role: Former clerks tapped to make the arguments others have abandoned."  Here is how it starts:On Jan. 7, Jay Jorgensen took an unusual call from his former boss, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.  Alito's request: Would Jorgensen have time to argue a Supreme Court case in April ? a case Jorgensen had never heard of ? for free? In Greenlaw v. United States, it seems the government had decided that it agreed with plaintiff Michael Greenlaw on the main sentencing-related issue in the case.  So the Court needed someone else to argue against lawyers for Greenlaw, a Minneapolis drug dealer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 13, 2008 (boomark / email).